I framed houses for about ten years when I was younger. We used to get in nail gun fights all the time. Because there was no barrel, the nail starts tumbling when it's mere inches away from the gun. No one ever had a nail penetrate their skin more a few millimeters.

Unless that's a real barrel, I seriously doubt that thing has an effective range of more than a foot.

Not surprised it's a fake. Thinking about it a bit more, on all nail guns I've ever owned or seen, the driver (or hammer) from the gun has to be in physical contact with the nail in order for it to have sufficient force to fully seat the nail into wood. This force would not be present if the nail had to travel the length of the barrel without the driver behind it. It would no longer function as a nail gun.

You can't practice Judo just to win a Judo Match! You practice so that no matter what happens, you can win using Judo!
The key to fighting two men at once is to be much tougher than both of them.
-Daniel Tosh

Did Daniel Tosh really say that **** about judo?

(Actually I'm taking this opportunity to ask you about where that quote's from, since you're the only Google result...)

I framed houses for about ten years when I was younger. We used to get in nail gun fights all the time. Because there was no barrel, the nail starts tumbling when it's mere inches away from the gun. No one ever had a nail penetrate their skin more a few millimeters.

Unless that's a real barrel, I seriously doubt that thing has an effective range of more than a foot.

1) This is the awesomest story about screwing around on the job I have read in a while.

2) Also, even if it had a barrel, how could they rifle the barrel and spin the nails before they came out? That seems like a huge engineering challenge, and by the time you answer it, your nails look like bullets and you are shooting holes in the walls.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifling